diff --git a/.github/workflows/build.yml b/.github/workflows/build.yml
index fb917f073f..8423139524 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/build.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/build.yml
@@ -174,7 +174,7 @@ jobs:
       - uses: jupyterlab/maintainer-tools/.github/actions/base-setup@v1
       - uses: jupyterlab/maintainer-tools/.github/actions/check-links@v1
         with:
-          ignore_links: 'https://playwright.dev/docs/test-cli/ https://blog.jupyter.org/the-big-split-9d7b88a031a7 https://blog.jupyter.org/jupyter-ascending-1bf5b362d97e https://mybinder.org/v2/gh/jupyter/notebook/main https://nbviewer.jupyter.org https://stackoverflow.com https://github.com/[^/]+/?$'
+          ignore_links: 'https://playwright.dev/docs/test-cli/ https://blog.jupyter.org/.* https://mybinder.org/v2/gh/jupyter/notebook/main https://nbviewer.jupyter.org https://stackoverflow.com https://github.com/[^/]+/?$'
           ignore_glob: 'ui-tests/test/notebooks/*'
 
   test_lint:
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 6e8f7cdd52..bac56d3f6c 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 [build-system]
 requires = [
     "hatchling>=1.11",
+    "hatch-jupyter-builder>=0.5",
     "jupyterlab>=4.5.0rc0,<4.6",
 ]
 build-backend = "hatchling.build"